PLAY When Horror was horror!

[Ractivist]

Dark Shadows was the go to after school scare me show...... It, and Gilligan's Island....thought that didn't really scare me, much.........I feared for Mary Ann on that dangerous island..

 

[Loretta Van Riet]

Nielsen initially wasn’t going to do “Airplane” because he felt it would damage his credibility as a dramatic actor. He was right, but it gave him a whole second career as a comic actor. And he was far better comedically than as a serious actor.

He-he. As a kid I enjoyed his role as "The Swamp Fox" on Disney.

 

[Loretta Van Riet]

Dark Shadows was the go to after school scare me show...... It, and Gilligan's Island....thought that didn't really scare me, much.........I feared for Mary Ann on that dangerous island..

Never got to see Dark Shadows. By the time I walked home from school, it was mostly over except for the theme music.
No VCR's in those days.

 

[Dm19cm]

My favorite will always be Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in those old Hammer films. Actually, I read an old autobiography of Peter Cushing and he wrote that he and Cristopher Lee became friends while filming. Apparently Lee also helped him get work from time to time. Such a gentle man. I'm a bit biased...he reminds me so much of my maternal grandfather. I do miss those old movies. My mom and I would stay up on Saturday nights and watch Creature Features together. Good times! Svengoolie is my go to now for a "monster movie" fix. Hey, a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! Now, lets bring on the popcorn

 

[auxman]

Dark Shadows is BADASS...

 

[Border Collie Dad]

He-he. As a kid I enjoyed his role as "The Swamp Fox" on Disney.

Was he Frances Marion?
Wow!
That was a really long time ago.
Disney made a lot of good stuff back then.

 

[happyretiree]

I think I remember reading Peter Cushing was a very tall man. It came to mind as I was while watching The Mummy awhile back. Nope, wrong one. It was Christopher Lee.

 

[PghPanther]

Ever watch any of those B grade Sci-Fi /Horror films when they are on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and watch all the comments from the seats by the robots just butchering the film script?

 

[Red Baron]

Nielsen initially wasn’t going to do “Airplane” because he felt it would damage his credibility as a dramatic actor. He was right, but it gave him a whole second career as a comic actor. And he was far better comedically than as a serious actor.

Surely, you're kidding?

 

[accountant]

It's just my opinion, but to me everything was better in black and white.

The Thin Man series, Abbott and Costello, Jimmy Stewart movies, westerns, Humphrey Bogart movies, Dick Van Dyke show, Gilligan's Island, the Munsters just to name a few.

I should have been an adult in the forties, fifties and early sixties.

A.

 

[Dm19cm]

I think I remember reading Peter Cushing was a very tall man. It came to mind as I was while watching The Mummy awhile back. Nope, wrong one. It was Christopher Lee.

If I remember correctly, Peter Cushing was 6' 1 1/2" and Christopher Lee was 6' 4" tall.

 

[The Hammer]

My favorite will always be Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in those old Hammer films. Actually, I read an old autobiography of Peter Cushing and he wrote that he and Cristopher Lee became friends while filming. Apparently Lee also helped him get work from time to time. Such a gentle man. I'm a bit biased...he reminds me so much of my maternal grandfather. I do miss those old movies. My mom and I would stay up on Saturday nights and watch Creature Features together. Good times! Svengoolie is my go to now for a "monster movie" fix. Hey, a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! Now, lets bring on the popcorn

I've always enjoyed the Hammer horror films, especially those with Lee and Cushing. They have a special kind of creepiness.